session
/ˈsɛ.ʃən/ noun B1- A period of time devoted to a particular activity. · counseling session· a training session
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions. · This court is now in session.
- The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected. · Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.
- Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- An academic term; semester; school year.
- An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
Plural sessions
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So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.
“The sitting is adjourned, gentlemen,” said the president; “fresh inquiries will be made, and the case will be tried next session by another magistrate.”
Leo asked Devon why he always missed their important study sessions.
They also tend to perform poorly on subsequent assessments, as the fragmented study sessions prevent deep cognitive processing.
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